Finnish metallers NORTHER have entered the national single chart in their home country at position No. 1 with their latest release, the "No Way Back" EP. View the whole chart at this location. A teaser medley for the EP can be found at this location. Check out the CD artwork
Don Dokken and Wendy Dio (manager/wife of DIO/BLACK SABBATH singer Ronnie James Dio) are among the scheduled speakers at the "Heavy Metal Thunder" event as part of the third annual Music DVD Conference on Tuesday, March 6 at the Salon Royal Room (First Floor) in the Wyndham Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood, CA. Dokken ...
Los Angeles' THE FUNERAL PYRE will embark on a two-week West Coast tour with Creator Destructor labelmates CERBERUS. Now supporting the re-release of the band's second full-length, "The Nature of Betrayal", through a distribution deal with Prosthetic Records, the tour marks THE FUNERAL PYRE's return to the road after the band's jaunt with APIARY and ...
Valiant thrash warriors EVILE have returned to the U.K. after completing a flagship Dutch tour, delivering bursts of thrash to appreciative audiences. EVILE has posted a full tour report on their MySpace page, recounting their experiences while traveling through the country — most notoriously recalling their appreciation for "porn on TV at 9AM? ...
According to a posting on POISON frontman Bret Michaels' official web site, two versions of a new Michaels solo track, "Anymore", will be posted on the site tomorrow (Thursday, March 1). Fans will be given a chance to vote for their favorite, and the winning version will appear on Bret's new solo CD, due later ...
German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR have posted the following message on their official web site: "Sorry for our delay in updating the page with news from the recording session, but a lot of things happened and today we're back with another round of studio news and pictures! The bass guitar recordings were finished last weekend ...
Fresh off an immensely successful headlining tour and currently gearing up for a return trip to Europe for headlining duties, Massachusetts' ALL THAT REMAINS has now been confirmed as direct support to Welsh metal band BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Stateside in May before making a return trip to Europe for the band's debut at Wacken ...
ALICE COOPER has set "Along Came a Spider" as the title of his new studio album, tentatively due in May. A two-and-a-half-minute video interview Cooper gave to Scott Harden at the Los Angeles Confidential magazine pre-Oscar party for Forest Whitaker at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles has been posted online at YouTube.com. ...
Northern California rockers Y&T will celebrate the reissues of "Earthshaker" (1981) and "In Rock We Trust" (1984) by performing both albums in their entirety on March 17 at the Independent in San Francisco. Re-released last month, "Earthshaker" "was carefully digitally re-mastered in November 2006 at a high sampling rate taken directly from the 1/2" analog ...
According to Hits Daily Double, Victory Records and ADA are the indie market leaders with information gleaned from this week's current album sales chart. The RED-distributed Victory Records has .44 of the market for all labels that are not owned or partially owned by a major, not publicly traded, distributed by a major or in ...
